New Dining Room

Our friends Stacy & Travis sold us their antique dining table and chairs at the end of 2009. They fit perfectly in our dining room. The china cabinet is Brian's great grandfather's and it is actually a bookcase, we are just using it for a china cabinet. And the curtains came with the house...

The 2 of us painted this room together. We recovered the chairs, bought some artwork, had curtains made, and spray painted the chandelier. Ellen LOVES before & after pics. LOVES them.

Party, Party, Party

We are VERY into parties. Especially me (Ellen). And especially when we get to host these parties. So any holiday or random reason I can think of to throw a party, I do...

We threw a neighborhood block party and invited everyone who lived in our "part" of the neighborhood. We are so lucky to be surrounded by wonderful neighbors who are about our same age (late 20s-early 30s) and in the same stage of life. About 35 people showed up, so it was definitely a huge success!

Brian thought it was super cheesy that I made everyone wear nametags.

We hosted New Years Eve at our house... this is our group of besties... Adam and Greyson (left couple) are great friends of ours and live about 8 minutes away. Greyson and Ellen have been friends since 7th grade. Stacy and Travis (middle couple) are also great friends of ours but live about 45 minutes away. Stacy and Ellen have been friends since age 2.

Once we were completely settled in our new home, we threw ourselves a Housewarming Party. It was fabulous. Friends and family attended and we were able to "show off" our house and give tours and tell what we had redone or changed.

Ellen's parents (and sister, not pictured) came to the party too

YUM

and YUM

The hostess and host :)

Our First House!

On October 27, 2008 we closed on our first home!! We searched and we searched for what seemed like months until we found our perfect home. We thought ahead (props to us!) about school districts too. We were able to save up enough money for this house, in Roswell, located in a VERY family-friendly neighborhood. Our future children will walk across the street, with their new neighbor friends, to their elementary school. We have made friends with a lot of our neighbors over this past year and are very pleased that we decided to "make a house our home" here.

Many of our friends and family members spent the weekend before Thanksgiving helping us move ALL of our stuff into our new home. We were so grateful for their time and effort.

standing in front of our new home :)

Brian carried me over the threshold

because our furniture hadn't arrived yet, my parents set up a picnic for us on our living room floor